Leibniz An Introduction [Paperback]

Broad's characteristically shrewd survey of Leibniz provides a very clear, detailed and orderly guide to a notoriously difficult philosophical system.Broad has provided a characteristically shrewd and sympathetic survey of Leibniz which further confirms his known virtues as an historian and expositor. This book is a very clear, detailed and orderly guide to what is notoriously a most difficult (and sometimes disorderly) philosophical system.Broad has provided a characteristically shrewd and sympathetic survey of Leibniz which further confirms his known virtues as an historian and expositor. This book is a very clear, detailed and orderly guide to what is notoriously a most difficult (and sometimes disorderly) philosophical system.This book, first published in 1975, provides critical and comprehensive introduction to the philosophy of Leibniz. C.D. Broad was Knightsbridge Professor of Moral Philosophy at Cambridge from 1933 to 1953 and this book is based on his undergraduate lectures on Leibniz. Broad died in 1971 and Dr Lewy has since edited the book for publication. Leibniz is, of course, recognized as a major figure in all courses in the history of philosophy, but he has perhaps been less well served by textbook writers than most other philosophers. Broad has provided here a characteristically shrewd and sympathetic survey which further confirms his known virtues as an historian and expositor. It is a very clear, detailed and orderly guide to what is notoriously a most difficult (and sometimes disorderly) philosophical system; it provides a masterful introduction to the subject.Editor's preface; Abbreviations; Part I. Life and Works; Part II. General Principles Used by Leibniz: 1. Predicate-in-Notion Principle; 2. Principle of sufficient reason; 3. Is the Predicate-in-Notion Principle compatible with contingency?; 4. Comments on the Predicate-in-Notion Principle; 5. Principle of Sufficient Reason, contingency, and infinite complexity; 6. Denial of relations; 7. Idló„